Syrian suspected of planning truck attack in Germany arrested: prosecutors. "He is suspected of ... requesting 180,000 euros from a contact person in Syria on his cell phone from Saarbruecken in December, 2016 so that he could acquire vehicles to pack with explosives and drive them into a crowd,"

Islamic State said it carried out the bomb attack on the Syrian coastal city of Tartous that Syrian state media said killed two security officers. Islamic State said in an online statement claiming the attack that two of its members detonated car bombs. It did not say whether they were suicide attackers or provide any further details.

The Syrian Observatory for Human rights has documented since the Turkish-backed and begun Euphrates Shield campaign in northern Syria '277 civilians killed' from the 24th of August 2016 (Turkey's intervention) until today the first of January 2017. The civilian victims include 65 children and 38 women; in addition, dozens of others wounded by Turkish airstrikes and bombardment, northern Aleppo, Syria.

One of the injured victims of the attack in Reina night club in Istanbul says that the gunmen/gunman had opened fire on people then looked to see if there were people alive to shoot at them also, Turkey.

Two suicide bombers detonated their explosives, killing at least two security officers in the Syrian city of Tartus, Syrian state television reported. It said the officers were part of a security patrol that stopped the bombers, who then blew themselves up. Others were injured in the blasts, including civilians, state TV said.

One of the victims is a police officer in the Istanbul Reina nightclub shooting. The police officer was shot dead at the entrance of the club. There was just one sole attacker also, and not two, the governor of Istanbul says.